When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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